1920 Popular Books and Bestsellers

1920 Books & Bestsellers

1920 Fiction Top Ten Books

(according to Publisher’s Weekly)
1. The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey
2. Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. Kyne
3. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright
4. The River’s End by James Oliver Curwood
5. A Man for the Ages by Irving Bacheller
6. Mary-Marie by Eleanor H. Porter
7. The Portygee by Joseph C. Lincoln
8. The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim
9. The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. Dell
10. Harriet and the Piper by Kathleen Norris

1920 Non-Fiction Books

1. Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs
2. The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John M. Keynes
3. Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children edited by Joseph B. Bishop
4. Theodore Roosevelt by William Roscoe Thayer
5. White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O’Brien
6. An American Idyll by Cornelia Stratton Parker

1920 Notable Literature

Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
Collected Legal Papers by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Reconstruction in Philosophy by John Dewey
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1920 Nobel Prize in Literature
Most Popular Books of 1920, according to GoodReads
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